Buccola said one of her colleagues in the weather service's regional office on Long Island spotted the chaff on a radar screen and quickly identified it by checking the image on a high-resolution ...

If you happened to be watching the radar early Thursday afternoon, you may have noticed something unusual.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Military chaff that distort weather radar, similar to the phenomenon that rose above Redstone Arsenal and the Huntsville area on Tuesday, are not uncommon near military bases ...

"What we were able to see from the dual-pol radar data looked similar to military chaff cases previously, but the primary difference was that the winds weren't blowing the stuff away," Havin said ...

Knupp explains chaff could be used to disrupt a radar, possibly covering up the presence of an aircraft. We’re also following this phenomenon on our weather blog, Valleywx.com.

It looks like rain but it’s actually secret military exercises What looked liked rain on an Aussie weather radar this week turned out to be masking something a lot more powerful.

Weather radar signature was military ‘chaff,’ not grasshoppers, National Weather Service clarifies Military chaff — a reflective substance designed to confuse radars — is likely what radar ...

This advanced radar allows scientists to scan in both the horizontal and vertical directions. They found the blob was not nature-made, after all, and was likely so-called military chaff, or ...

This advanced radar allows scientists to scan in both the horizontal and vertical directions. They found the blob was not nature-made, after all, and was likely so-called military chaff, or ...

Buccola said one of her colleagues in the weather service's regional office on Long Island spotted the chaff on a radar screen and quickly identified it by checking the image on a high-resolution ...

Chaff is released in large amounts, forming a cloud that shows up on radar as many false targets. This can be used in training or real combat to protect aircraft from being detected.